Jenolan Caves has acquired a sister.
She is the Zhijindong Caves park in south-west China.
The administrator of the Jenolan Caves Conservation Trust, Bob Conroy, recently visited the spectacular karst landscape of the park in Guizhou province to sign a sister park partnership.
“We look forward to sharing information and management practices, receiving delegations and greater numbers of visitors from China and negotiating possible staff exchanges,” he said.
Zhijindong Caves Global Geopark is an area of about 17,000 hectares and the caves are ranked as the most beautiful in China.
They boast the largest and most numerous caverns in the world with a grand array of very impressive stalagmites and stalactites including high columns, flowstone, helictites and fossils.
Both the national and provincial governments of China strongly believe that encouraging tourism through improving infrastructure, upgrading visitor facilities and protecting nature, will lead to sustainable economic growth in this part of China.